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Definition of Charlatans
1. charlatan [n] - See also: charlatan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Charlatans
Literary usage of Charlatans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Wayfaring Life in the Middle Ages (XIVth Century) by Jean Jules Jusserand (1890)
"CHAPTER I. HERBALISTS, charlatans, MINSTRELS, JUGGLERS, AND TUMBLERS. THE most
popular of all the wanderers were naturally the cheerfullest, ..."
2. A Day in Old Athens: A Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis (1914)
"Quacks and charlatans. — Unluckily not everybody is wise enough to put up ...
In the market there is such a swarm of these charlatans of healing that they ..."
3. Three Years Among the Working-classes in the United States During the War by James Dawson Burn (1865)
"... Quakers—Amusements and Superstitions—Astrological charlatans and Clairvoyantes—Medical
Nostrums and Immoralities—Prevalence of Profane Language—Want of ..."
4. Burke, Select Works by Edmund Burke (1881)
"We, 'the best natured people upon earth,' are branded by these charlatans, on
the score of our struggles to preserve our inherited liberties, ..."
5. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"Remedies of charlatans.—Colchicum.—Advantages and drawbacks of this agent.—Bules
to be followed in its employment.— Narcotics : henbane, opium. ..."
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